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Part I Summary :

Related Challenges?

Part I
Related Problems

� Student Retention

� Want fewer students to drop out of courses, drop out of college, fail courses

� Want more students to stay enrolled longer, to complete courses

� Want more students to succeed

� Ownership of Courses

� Want fewer faculty feeling they won�t be needed if they succeed in �putting their course online�

� Want more faculty to strive to improve the courses they teach

� Want more faculty to succeed

� Plagiarism

� Want fewer students claiming others� work as their own

� Want more students to recognize and value others� originality and authenticity

� Want more students to take pride in their own academic work

� Building Community

� Want few people feeling disaffected, lonely

� Want more people feeling they belong

� Want more people helping each other

� Want more people connecting with each other

December, 2003, Steven W. Gilbert, President, The TLT Group

Related Challenges?

Related Problems

Related Solutions?

Part I Related Problems

� Student Retention

� Want fewer students to drop out of courses, drop out of college, fail courses

� Want more students to stay enrolled longer, to complete courses

� Want more students to succeed

� Ownership of Courses

� Want fewer faculty feeling they won�t be needed if they succeed in �putting their course online�

� Want more faculty to strive to improve the courses they teach

� Want more faculty to succeed

� Plagiarism

� Want fewer students claiming others� work as their own

� Want more students to recognize and value others� originality and authenticity

� Want more students to take pride in their own academic work

� Building Community

� Want few people feeling disaffected, lonely

� Want more people feeling they belong

� Want more people helping each other

� Want more people connecting with each other

Related Solutions?

� Student Retention

� Greater engagement of students with teacher, with each other, with course content

� Ownership of Courses

� More visible engagement of faculty with their courses

� Greater communication of teachers� own enthusiasm and commitment for course content itself and for students� learning of it

� Plagiarism

� Students understand and believe in the importance of building on others� work

� Students believe in the importance of doing and presenting their own work

� Building Community

� More people actively engaged, connected with each other, helping each other

Connected Solutions

Paths to Engagement

Personalizing Education

Next ... Questions

Reprise: Fundamental Questions

Part II Connected Solutions

� Student Retention

� Personalizing students� participation in courses

� Ownership of Courses

� Personalizing teachers� contributions to courses

� Plagiarism

� Personalizing students� work

� Building Community

� Personalizing people�s interactions

Paths to Engagement

� Participation, Interaction, Connection, Individualization

� Personalization

� Revealing, sharing, committing a piece of your mind; a piece of yourself

Personalizing Education

� New tools, new options, new hopes

� Voice

� Synchronous and Asynchronous

� e.g., Elluminate, RoboDemo, & RoboPresenter

� Use new tools to:

� Personalize interaction

� Increase engagement

� [Thereby, improve teaching and learning with technology!]

Next ... Questions

� To what extent and under what circumstances is greater �engagement� part of the solution?

� To what extent and in what ways is exchange of voice necessary? sufficient?

� What are other important: Paths to engagement? Vehicles for engagement?

Reprise: Fundamental Questions

Thousands of faculty and other professionals in higher education were asked these questions since early 1995:

� What do you most want to gain? For yourself? For your colleagues? For your institution?

� What do you most cherish and want not to lose? For yourself? For your colleagues? For your institution?

� Most frequent answer, overwhelmingly: Meaningful connections between faculty and students

Part I
Related Problems

Part II
Connected Solutions

� Revealing, sharing, committing
a piece of your mind;
a piece of yourself

� New tools, new options,
new hopes

� What are other important:
Paths to engagement?
Vehicles for engagement?

� What do you most want to gain?
For yourself? For your colleagues? For your institution?

� What do you most cherish and want not to lose?
For yourself? For your colleagues? For your institution?

� Most frequent answer, overwhelmingly:
Meaningful connections between faculty and students